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Drabble | Prompt | The Fiction Writer’s Den
The Stage Manager
It’s all fun and games until someone raids the prop table…
A Drabble is a work of fiction of exactly 100 words, no more, no less. So please stick around for 30 seconds so Medium can see it’s been read. Any claps, highlights, and comments are greatly appreciated.
This prompt is A Drabble a Day Episode 54: The Phantom Drabble. Grim Flandango in The Fiction Writer’s Den. The word today is FINGER.
“Alright, fifteen-minute call everyone, that’s fifteen minutes!”
Julie loved her job as a stage manager. It’s all she’d ever known. She knew at the age of four when she had her first audition that she wanted to be in the theater.
Sure, she didn’t quite make it on stage, but she was behind the scenes where all the action was.
People were starting to filter into the backstage area when she saw something.
She pointed her finger at Scotty. “Put that down RIGHT now. I see you! The Ham Hock is not a toy.”
“Ah, the theater…” She sighed.
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